Sugar-cane stripper



' E. P. PUTNAM. SUGAR GANE STRIEIER.

No.- 260,709. Patented .July 4; 1882 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

EMMET P. PUTNAM, OF LA UHINOHE, LOUISIANA.

SUGAR-CANE STRIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,709, dated July 4,1882.

Application filed November 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMME'r P. PUTNAM, of LaGhinche, in the parish of St. Bernard, and in the State of Louisiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sugar- OaneStrippers and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a partof this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement which is applicable to choppersor knives used for cutting the sugar-cane.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination, with achopping-blade, of an auxiliary blade, both secured to the same handle,the latter or auxiliary blade being so arranged and applied to thehandle that it is useful for stripping the leaves from the stalks at oneblow, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view. of my improvedduplex knife. Fig. 2 is a top view, showing a modification of Fig. 1.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a large blade made somewhat like abutchers cleaver, and constructed with a hook, at, on the back of itsbroadest end, adapted for drawing in and allowing the stalks to bequickly grasped in the hand. The bottom of this blade is sharpened toform a cutting-edge, and its rear or narrower end is suitably securedinto the kerf of a handle, B.

U designates a supplemental blade, which is also rigidly secured intothe handle B at the top of the blade A, and which may be of the samelength as this blade, or shorter, if de sired. The blade 0 is a narrowstripper sharpened along its lower edge, and, if desired, constructedwith a hook, b, on the back of its free end. rated from the workingportion of the blade A, I prefer to use arivet, b, (shown in Fig. 1,) or1 may use as a modification of this rivet an angular curve in the bladeitself, as shown in the modification, Fig. 2. 1

It will be seen from the above description thatthe duplex knife isusefulfor stripping at one blow the leaves from a cane-stalk.

What I claim as new is- As a new article of manufacture, thecanestripperconsisting of the broad hooked cleaver A and the narrowhooked stripping-blade 0, set at an angle and fixed at one end .of thehandle B, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses,this 7th day of November, 1881.

EMMET PERKINS PUTNAM.

To keep this supplemental blade sepa-

